Elizabeth Scalia

I want to love, again. Youth cannot be reclaimed, and I would not want to, but increasingly I feel a needa calling, perhapsto find a way to reach back and recapture one aspect of my . . . . Continue Reading »11Dec2012

The editorial board of the National Catholic Reporter this week endorsed the ordination of women. Basing its position on a 1976 vote by the Pontifical Biblical Commission, on countless . . . . Continue Reading »4Dec2012

Two weeks ago in this space, while still processing Election 2012, I wrote of my relief at the outcome, not because I approved of it, but because it provided a bit of needed clarity. Faced with a . . . . Continue Reading »27Nov2012

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 6:25 AM: In the palest light, I follow footprints left in the seasons first frost, just a few minutes behind the regulars. The churchs glaring overhead lights are . . . . Continue Reading »20Nov2012

I am relieved. Now that a week has passed, and people have processed things a little, I can admit publicly what I have to date only said to a few close friends. I am relieved at the outcome of the . . . . Continue Reading »13Nov2012

We are told that the election cycle is fourteen months long, but we know better. The 2012 presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have been ongoing since the last ballot was counted in . . . . Continue Reading »6Nov2012

We are barely two weeks away from an election day that, to paraphrase Churchill, is not the beginning of our end (our end as a nation has been, like the end of each human life, a process built-in at . . . . Continue Reading »23Oct2012

Not long ago, while discussing the viability of a continued Eucharistic church given the dearth of priestly vocations, I told someone that the outlook is better than our perceptions would have us . . . . Continue Reading »16Oct2012

Almost exactly one year ago in this space, I offered anecdotal evidence of a previously unthinkable development: the growing distrust among senior citizens for a mainstream press whose credibility . . . . Continue Reading »25Sep2012

October 11, 2012 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council. It is perhaps both a tribute to that council and a challenge to it, that Pope Benedict XVI has chosen . . . . Continue Reading »11Sep2012